Example sentences of "i was [vb pp] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 2 | It 's just that there are some things the mind-set is not adjusted to and I was tuned in for bracing winds , long place names and snatches of Tom Jones . |
| 3 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 4 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 5 | After Seve 's win at Lytham I was worn out for a week . |
| 6 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 7 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 8 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 9 | I was laid up for five weeks , could n't do any work whatsoever and just sleep , cuss the family , be generally grumpy , tired and achy . |
| 10 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |